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As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World … Economic Forum, 2010; European Board Diversity Analysis, 2010) were recently carried out and have all led to reports confirming …
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In this article, we conduct a longitudinal study of women’s progress on French corporate boards of directors. We particularly focus on the extent to which women directors have circumvented the glass ceiling. Using a sample of SBF 120 companies over a 10-year period from 2000 to 2009, our...
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This study examines the trend of gender and nationality diversity of corporate board in top 300 Malaysian public listed … from firms’ annual report, a longitudinal descriptive analysis on the trend of board diversity is presented. Mann-Whitney U … directors over the five-year period, which reflects a slow progress in board diversity in Malaysia. Other than that, several …
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Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in …, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption …
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members also has a similar impact. The effect of the chairmans gender is statistically insignificant. These findings are …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the reporting of the information concerning a specific dimension of diversity …: gender and more precisely employment of women in the French’ banks corporate annual documents of the between 1999 and 2009 … the women employment indicators is strongly linked with diversity charts and labels. The neo-institutional theory can be …
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-economic diversity, gender and science education. In the Indian context attempts were made to understand existing educational policies …This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity … ignore the issue of diversity, two manifestations are possible: diversity poses challenges to curricular and classroom …
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Diversity is increasingly considered as a motive for entrepreneurship. In our article, we set the hypothesis that … diversity positively affects self-employment. In order to validate our hypothesis, we discuss two literature reviews: the first … one about the link between culture, ethnicity and entrepreneurship and the other one about gender and entrepreneurship. We …
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even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …
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